Throughout its history, Alvin—the most active research submersible in the world and the only U.S. HOV capable of reaching ...

From February 24 to March 4, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) used the human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin, and autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry, both ...

HOV Alvin, with ROV Jason Jr. attached, descends to the ocean bottom. CREDIT: WHOI Archives /©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. “To be able to actually inspect things on the seafloor in ...

Alvin has contributed to numerous discoveries, including shipwrecks and ocean science. The human-operated vehicle, or HOV, has carried more than 3,000 people on over 5,000 dives to the deep.

HOV Alvin, launched off the research ship Atlantis, filmed the reef for the first time. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The Galapágos Marine Reserve (GMR), established in 1998 by the ...

Alvin sampling a hydrothermal vent in 2021. Photo: WHOI-MISO, D. Fornari, S. A. Soule, WHOI/NSF/2022, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Alvin submersible is now capable of diving to 21,325 ...

The F-1 submarine now lies on its starboard (right) side with its bow (front) to the northwest, and subsequent explorations with the HOV Alvin showed the sub was "remarkably intact" after being ...

This time, he said, there’s no doubt of what the Alvin crew saw. “This has been the closest that we ever come to witnessing the initiation of an eruption” along the mid-ocean ridge, he said.

The R/V Atlantis is a distinctive sight in Astoria in the summer. With its easy-to-spot dome and huge A-frame at the stern, the research ship brings in a crew of 23 people and can take two dozen ...

Help from Alvin. A team from University of California, ... Pectinereis strickrotti was first spotted in 2009 at about 3,280 feet deep, during a dive in the HOV Alvin submersible.

Video taken from inside the Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin as the submersible passed over the conning tower and forward hull of USS F-1. Credit: Bruce Strickrott, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.